beldam

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beldam (plural beldams)

1. Alternative spelling of beldame.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 25:

     Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been knifed to death? They are not to be thought away.

• balmed, bedlam, Bedlam, blamed, ambled, medlab, lambed